Because we all want to write more poems.
Just had to get this off my chest
I shouldn't even be writing this to you.
I don't want to give you the impression
That I have bought into the anthropomorphic
vision of white beard and long flowing robes
or white robe and long flowing beards
that our simplistic culture hangs on you.
I do not believe you are all knowing
Not the way I understand knowing
Nor do I believe in your benevolence
Toward me specifically, nor my family,
nor my species even.
Remember how I mocked you in all those other poems?
How I said you didn't exist in that poem about my socks?
How I took you to task for destroying the earth by flood?
How I compared you unflatteringly to my rich uncle?
No, of course you don't.
You are not human and you don't have a human memory
If you have knowledge at all, it's something I can't comprehend
And vice versa.
I'll give you this much: you are the way
The truth and the light.
It's just that you're not some guy saying,
"I am the way, the truth and the light"
I do believe you are in control
But I don't believe you are controlling
There is a path and we are on it
And it will continue for a long while
We will stray from the path
We will loop back and lose our way
We may follow others down the path
Some of those others will veer off
Some will walk backward
But the path is there
The path is you
The path is always there
And I will follow
- Neil McKay's Shared Poems
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Jennifer Dixey
February 25, 2012
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Beautiful ...
"How I said you didn't exist in that poem about my socks?" ... this is the first thing I thought of when I read your first stanza. :) Thank you for sharing this today. It's a very timely poem in my life.
Clayton Medeiros
February 25, 2012
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Sufi mystics talk about one
Sufi mystics talk about one God many paths. This is your path and it is good.